Session programs and abstracts will be published in late July and will be available for registered participants only.

*If you are interested in contributing an oral presentation or a poster to one of the eight parallel sessions, please submit your abstract while registration process form February 15 to May 15, 2019.

Website of the Chemical Education (ChemEdu) Conference 2019


September 6, 2019

09.00 Registration / Welcome Coffee Lichthof
09.45 Welcome and conference opening
Prof. Roger Alberto, Chair SCS Fall Meeting
Prof. Roland K. O. Sigel
, Dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Zürich
G30
09.50 Sandmeyer Award Lecture 2019
Dr. Michael Berg, Dr. Stephan Hug, Dr. Annette Johnson (in memoriam), Dr. Andreas Voegelin and Prof. Lenny Winkel, Eawag, Dübendorf
«Arsenic and other Geogenic Contaminants in Groundwater – a Global Challenge»
G30
10.20 SCS Industrial Science Award Lecture 2019
Dr. Christophe Boss, Idorsia Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
«20 Years of Medicinal Chemistry - Always look at the bright side (of life)»
G30
10.50 Short break  
11.00 Morning Parallel Session*
- Analytical Sciences (AS)
- Catalysis Science & Engineering (CE)
- Computational Chemistry (CC)
- Inorganic & Coordination Chemistry (IC)
- Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology (MC)
- Organic Chemistry (OC)
- Physical Chemistry (PC)
- Polymers, Colloids & Interfaces (PCI)

G95
G20
G85
G30
G60
G45
G40
G55
12.45 Lunch and Poster Session*
Commercial Exhibition
Lichthof,
Corridors
13.30 General Assembly of the Swiss Young Chemists' Association (SYCA) G95
15.00 Afternoon Parallel Session*
- Analytical Sciences (AS)
- Catalysis Science & Engineering (CE)
- Computational Chemistry (CC)
- Inorganic & Coordination Chemistry (IC)
- Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology (MC)
- Organic Chemistry (OC)
- Physical Chemistry (PC)
- Polymers, Colloids & Interfaces (PCI)

G95
G20
G85
G30
G60
G45
G40
G55
15.30 Exhibitor Apéro Lichthof
16.45 Break and coffee / refreshments Lichthof
17.00 SCS Announcements
New Helvetica Prize of the Swiss Chemical Society 2019 (best published papers of PhD/Postdocs 2018/19)
Ceremony Exhibitor Challenge
G30
17.15 Grammatikakis-Neumann Award Lecture 2019
Prof. David Sarlah, University of Illinois, Urbana (USA)
«Photochemical Dearomatization of Nonactivated Arenes»
G30
17.45 SCS Senior Industrial Science Award Lecture 2019
Dr. Fabrice Gallou, Novartis Pharma AG
«Alternative solvents: from a compliance-driven activity to a trigger for innovation»
G30
18.15 Best Oral Presentation Awards (sponsored by Metrohm)
Dipl. Ing. Markus Steinke
, Executive Vice President Marketing at Metrohm International Headquarters
G30
18.15 Best Poster Presentation Awards (sponsored by DSM)
Dr. Thomas Netscher, Principal Scientist at DSM Nutritional Products 
G30
18.45 End of the conference